Understanding social problems, policies, and programs
By: Leon Ginsberg.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Social problems and social issues; Social problems and social issues (Columbia, S.C.)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Public welfare administration -- United States.; Social problems -- United States.; United States -- Social policy.
Description: Understanding Social Problems, Policies, and Programs offers a comprehensive analysis of the policies used in the United States to address social problems and to develop the nation's social welfare programs. Leon Ginsberg provides a framework for understanding some of the country's most controversial issues, including welfare assistance and welfare reform. He suggests practical ways in which individuals and groups might implement more-beneficial programs for the disadvantaged.

To update the volume's first edition, Ginsberg has expanded on the six-component model - history, social problems, public policy, description of programs, policy analysis, and policy practice - that defines social welfare policy and services. He has incorporated information about policy changes in the "Contract with America" that have been enacted by the 1995 Republican-led Congress.

Ginsberg also has included supplementary models for policy analysis and new references and materials from the nineteenth edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Social policy in social work and the other human services professions; title: The historical component : milestones in social policy; title: The social problems and social issues component; title: Public policy : how governments make decisions about social policy; title: Public economic policy; title: The descriptive component : economic assistance and entitlements; title: The descriptive component continued : special care for special groups; title: Analyzing social policies and models for policy analysis; title: Practicing social policy.